@article{Rickenbacker:310712,
      recid = {310712},
      author = {Rickenbacker, Joseph E.},
      title = {Losses of Livestock in Transit in Midwestern and Western  States  },
      address = {1958-06},
      number = {2393-2021-1322},
      series = {Marketing Research Report No. 247},
      pages = {58},
      year = {1958},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report Summary:  Bruising, crippling,  and killing of animals transported to market by rail and  motortruck constitute a heavy annual loss to the Nation's  livestock industry.  The rates of loss established in this  study of Farmer Cooperative Service, applied to total  animals slaughtered in 1955 and 1956, indicate that the  national loss in these years for dead and crippled animals  alone approximated $8 million a year at average annual  prices.  Because of the extent of these losses, farmers and  their cooperatives as well as other segments of the  livestock industry, are deeply concerned in seeing that all  feasible steps are taken toward reducing them.  For this  reason Farmer' Cooperative Service made this study to  analyze factors contributing to loss in transit.   Particularly, it has studied the relationship of  length-of-haul and seasonal weather conditions to losses in  livestock received at 10 major markets in 1954-55.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/310712},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.310712},
}